Because I’m too lazy to create a tutorial and the Arch Wiki is full of good articles here are some tips and tricks to install Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) on Arch Linux. Install plymouth-legacy (at the time time of writing, plymouth is broken) with an XBMC bootsplash for a pretty boot sequence. You will…

I like to do a lot of things using the console. But sometimes, when I need to do a lot of different rename and copy tasks, I open a new Finder window. The downside is that you have to browse to the that folder. Here’s a neat trick: Try executing this in the terminal:

I’m assuming you already created an entry in fstab that mounts your USB HDD on boot. If you haven’t, search around on the internet how to do it. For each mountpoint systemd creates a mountpoint.mount unit. Let’s find out how yours is called by executing:

I made a bookmarklet that changes the font to Comic Sans on the current page: Comic Sansify! To use it, drag it to your bookmarksbar or click on it to test it on this page. Here’s the code including some explanation:…

I used to install cron-apt on all servers to get notified of any updates that needed to be installed. Then I stumbled on the package apticron. The great advantage over cron-apt is that it also sends you the part of the changelog that describes the need for the update. That way you can decide whether…

When something breaks on your linux box, most of the time it will try to mail root. So one of the first things I do after installing a Linux server or workstation is making sure that mail sent to root is forwarded to a real working email address. The process should be more or less…

Had some fun making a Lorem Ipsum generator with some alternative words. You can find it on github or take it for a spin. It’s was hacked together so it’s probably pretty ugly code. I first wrote in PHP but then rewrote it in JavaScript. I’ll probably add some more phraselists and some settings later. If you…